Rolston, Lonergan, and the Intrinsic Value of Nature

Journal of Religious Ethics 27 (1):105 - 128 (1999)
  Copy   BIBTEX

Abstract

In recent metaethical debate over ways to justify the notion of intrinsic natural value, some neopragmatists have challenged realist conceptions of scientific and moral truth. Holmes Rolston defends a critical-realist epistemology as the basis for a metaphysics of "projective nature" and a cosmological narrative--both of which set up a historical ontology of objective natural value. Pure ecological science informs the wilderness experience of Rolston's ideal epistemic subject, the "sensitive naturalist." The author argues that Rolston's account of the relation between knowing and valuing can be clarified and strengthened by appropriating Bernard Lonergan's transcendental method. Conversely, Lonergan's view of moral self-transcendence can be developed further in light of Rolston's virtue epistemology, which is embodied in the figure of the sensitive naturalist

Other Versions

No versions found

Links

PhilArchive

    This entry is not archived by us. If you are the author and have permission from the publisher, we recommend that you archive it. Many publishers automatically grant permission to authors to archive pre-prints. By uploading a copy of your work, you will enable us to better index it, making it easier to find.

    Upload a copy of this work     Papers currently archived: 102,217

External links

Setup an account with your affiliations in order to access resources via your University's proxy server

Through your library

Similar books and articles

Rolston on intrinsic value: A deconstruction.J. Baird Callicott - 1992 - Environmental Ethics 14 (2):129-143.
Epistemology and Intrinsic Values.Christopher J. Preston - 1998 - Environmental Ethics 20 (4):409-428.
Rolston's Theory of Value.Katie McShane - 2007 - In Christopher J. Preston and Wayne Ouderkirk (ed.), Nature, Value, Duty: Life on Earth with Holmes Rolston, III. Springer.
On Empty Compliments and Deceptive Detours.Nancy Frankenberry - 1999 - Journal of Religious Ethics 27 (1):129-136.

Analytics

Added to PP
2010-08-24

Downloads
53 (#420,360)

6 months
6 (#757,679)

Historical graph of downloads
How can I increase my downloads?

References found in this work

No references found.

Add more references